-Exerpt from exhibition essay “Sculpture as Bomb”, by Marcus Miller, 2010
"Laura St. Pierre’s cars are throwbacks. They have sunk into the waste pile of disrepair and obsolescence. They are reminders of a power we once thought we had to live outside this world and make it our own. Now, beyond their mundane practicality, they are containers for the past: nostalgia-bubbles that throw us backwards to a time of super-enhanced bodies walking on the moon.
But St.Pierre rescues and repurposes them. She fills them with soil, plants, a little water and lets them sit there, parked. They grow. (…)
This park isn’t showy. It doesn’t make you cry. AutoPark waits. It’s a sign. It’s an arc: a fertile capsule – a bomb. It’s ready, and when the time comes…"